Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Melinda Hess, University of South Florida; Autar Kaw, University of South Florida

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

2006-944: ASSESSING TEACHING METHODS FOR A COURSE IN NUMERICALMETHODSAutar Kaw, University of South Florida Autar K Kaw is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Jerome Krivanek Distinguished Teacher at the University of South Florida. With major funding from NSF, he is developing customized and holistic web-based modules for an undergraduate course in Numerical Methods (http://numericalmethods.eng.usf.edu). He has authored the textbook - Mechanics of Composite Materials, which is currently in its second edition. His scholarly interests include development of instructional technologies, integrating research in the classroom, thermal stresses, computational mechanics, and nanomechanics of

Conference Session

Systems Engineering Pedagogy

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Thomas H. Bradley, Colorado State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Systems Engineering

Paper ID #17197Evaluation of Techniques for Eliciting Online Interaction in Systems Engi-neering CoursesDr. Thomas H. Bradley, Colorado State University Thomas H. Bradley is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, and Associate Director of the Systems Engineering Program in the College of Engineering at Colorado State University. Bradley teaches and conducts research in system engineering, automotive engineering, and sustainable energy systems. In 2013, Bradley was awarded the Ralph R. Teetor Award for Excellence in Engineering Education. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016

Conference Session

Instrumentation in the Classroom

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William J., Jr. Park; Elizabeth A. Stephan; Benjamin L. Sill; Matthew Ohland

sensors), therelative performance of students conducting sensor-based laboratories will help isolate thepedagogical benefit of using the sensors. It is also clear that the sensors are particularly useful incases where no parallel educational design can be devised—situations in which it is either notpossible to collect enough data quickly without sensors or in which dynamic measurement can beused to provide additional information regarding even an apparently static problem. The use ofsensors to measure rapidly changing quantities is well known, and marked the widespreadintroduction of computer-based instrumentation into the curriculum decades ago. Themeasurement of quantities that are difficult to measure without sensors is also well

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED) Poster Session

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Xiuhua Si, California Baptist University; Ziliang Zhou, California Baptist University; Jinxiang Xi; Jun Zhang

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED)

the “green” education to their future professional career.References [1] “FACT SHEET: President Biden Sets 2030 Greenhouse Gas Pollution Reduction Target Aimed at CreatingGood-Paying Union Jobs and Securing U.S. Leadership on Clean Energy Technologies”, The white house, April22, 2021. https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2021/04/22/fact-sheet-president-biden-sets-2030-greenhouse-gas-pollution-reduction-target-aimed-at-creating-good-paying-union-jobs-and-securing-u-s-leadership-on-clean-energy-technologies/.[2] Leifler, O., Dahlin, J., (2020), Curriculum integration of sustainability in engineering education - anational study of programme director perspectives, International Journal of Sustainability in HigherEducation

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

ShaKayla Moran, Boise State University; Leslie Atkins Elliott, Boise State University

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

curriculum design principles. The literature, often drawing on work from informaleducation, including ”MakerSpaces,” and museums, highlights the importance of studentownership and authorship in this work [3], of contexts that allow for multiple pathways andsolutions [4], of materials that provide rapid feedback [1], and of pedagogies that support anorientation to ”mistakes” as simply drafts to be refined [4].The context: The EDISIn ProjectThe Next Generation Science Standards [11] calls for engineering — and particularly engineeringdesign — to be part of students’ science education throughout K-12, with engagement inengineering practices integrated into students’ learning of disciplinary core ideas. However, fewscience teachers have an engineering

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Carla López del Puerto, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus; Carmen M. Bellido, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus; Oscar Marcelo Suarez, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus; Monica Alfaro, University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus; Manuel A. Jimenez, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus

Tagged Topics

Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

first cohort of RISE-UP students and faculty.An example of integrating real life problems in the curriculum was the student involvement afterthe January 2020 earthquakes. During the first course of the curricular sequence, students learnedmethods to assess building structural vulnerability and damages. These lectures were followedby a site visit where they conducted case studies to assess the seismic vulnerability of severalbuildings. Following the 2020 earthquakes, RISE-UP students assisted faculty and professionalengineers in assessing structural damages at our campus following the earthquake. Studentsindicated that witnessing firsthand the complexities of assessing infrastructure damage duringand after an intense seismic event enhanced their

Conference Session

Laboratory Learning in Biomedical Engineering (Works in Progress) - June 24th

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Casey Jane Ankeny, Northwestern University; David P. O'Neill, Northwestern University; Lisa Beckmann, Northwestern University

Tagged Divisions

Biomedical Engineering

at the beginningof the module.4 For instance, for “Knowledge Processing”, students received the followingdescription: “[l]ocates, evaluates, integrates, and applies knowledge to support hypothesis.Assesses the accuracy of conclusions in literature.” The grader assigned scores on a scale of one(novice) to five (distinguished) and provided detailed feedback for the rating. The students thenviewed the detailed feedback on Canvas as well as their progress towards mastery through the“Outcomes” feature that is a colorimetric indicator of mastery.4For this study, the instructor graded all of the team reports for the Winter 2019 (W19; n=3)offering as well as an analogous number of reports from Spring 2018 (SP18, n=3) using both theTRAD rubric from

Conference Session

ERM Technical Session 11: Leadership and Collaborations in Engineering

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Medha Dalal, Arizona State University; Adam R. Carberry, Arizona State University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

Paper ID #25304Work in Progress: Exploring ’Ways of Thinking’ of Interdisciplinary Collab-oratorsDr. Medha Dalal, Arizona State University Medha Dalal has a Ph.D. in Learning, Literacies and Technologies from the Arizona State University with a focus on engineering education. She has a master’s degree in Computer Science and a bachelor’s in Electrical Engineering. Medha has many years of experience teaching and developing curricula in computer science, engineering, and education technology programs. She has worked as an instructional designer at the Engineering Research Center for Bio-mediated and Bio-inspired Geotechnics

Conference Session

Interdisciplinary Education in Engineering Technology

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ramin Sadeghi, Power & Water University of Technology; Saeid Moslehpour, University of Hartford; Mark Rajai, Northern Kentucky University; Robert Matthews, University of Louisville

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

AC 2007-2466: E-HEALTH (DIGITAL HEALTH) AND SITUATION IN IT/ICTBENEFITSRamin Sadeghi, Power & Water University of Technology Ramin Sadeghi, Power and water University of Technology (PWUT) The author is in charge of distance learning program at the institution. He has developed a Web-based distance learning software program – Director for Distance Learning Center of PWUT.Saeid Moslehpour, University of Hartford SAEID MOSLEHPOUR is an Assistant Professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department in the College of Engineering, Technology, and Architecture at the University of Hartford. He holds PhD from Iowa State University and BS MS and EdSp degrees from Central Missouri State

Conference Session

Distance and Web-Based Learning in Engineering Technology: Part II

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Ali Mehrabian, University of Central Florida; Tarig Ali, University of Central Florida; Walter Buchanan, Texas A&M University; Alireza Rahrooh, University of Central Florida

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

responsibilities of engineers. This is certainly a concern among manyfaculties including those teaching courses in online learning environments. The focus is toachieve meaningful ethics education for all engineering students, with particular emphasis oncompeting curriculum models.Our enduring practice with crafting online examinations was a student-centered approach in thepast. By using a “student-centered” approach, we imply relying on students themselves to be astruthful and self-disciplined as possible when taking exams in an online learning environment.We recently focused more on providing the learners with some documents serving as ethicalguidelines for taking online examinations. This is due to our astonished finding that somelearners are truthful

Conference Session

Innovation and Reflection

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Beth Rieken, Stanford University; Mark Schar, Stanford University; Shauna Shapiro, Santa Clara University; Shannon Katherine Gilmartin, Stanford University; Sheri Sheppard, Stanford University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

”pivot thinking,” the cognitive aptitudes and abilities that encourage innovation, and the tension between design engineering and business management cognitive styles. To encourage these thinking patterns in young engineers, Mark has developed a Scenario Based Learning curriculum that attempts to blend core engineering concepts with selected business ideas. Mark is also researches empathy and mindfulness and its impact on gender participation in engineering education. He is a Lecturer in the School of Engineering at Stanford University and teaches the course ME310x Product Management and ME305 Statistics for Design Researchers. Mark has extensive background in consumer products management, having managed more than 50

Conference Session

Assessment of Biomedical Engineering Programs

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Wendy Newstetter; Paul Benkeser

Session #2002 Learning Assessment in Problem-based Learning for BME Students Wendy C. Newstetter, Paul J. Benkeser Wallace H. Coulter Department of Biomedical Engineering Georgia Institute of TechnologyAbstractIn the fall of 2001, the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Tech inaugurated itsundergraduate degree program. The two anchor courses in the curriculum, BMED1300/2300have adopted an innovative educational approach called Problem-based Learning or PBL that hasbeen used in medical schools for more than a decade. In this approach, teams of eight studentstackle real

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Prateek Shekhar, University of Michigan; Aileen Huang-Saad, University of Michigan

Tagged Divisions

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

develop entrepreneurship-related skills inengineering graduates [12].As entrepreneurship education continues to grow and evolve in engineering fields, itbecomes crucial to work towards attaining alignment between curriculum, pedagogy, andassessment in engineering entrepreneurship programs. While educators are expected to beresponsible for developing ‘discovery, reasoning, and implementation skills’; theresearch community needs to focus on critically answering the question ‘how do youteach people to think entrepreneurially or develop an entrepreneurial mindset?’ [13]. Thefundamental step for determining effective pedagogical approaches and assessingengineering entrepreneurship education is building a coherent understanding ofentrepreneurial

Conference Session

Pedagogical Approaches in Construction Education

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lisa M. Holliday, University of Oklahoma; Camilo Pena, University of Oklahoma; Somik Ghosh, University of Oklahoma

Tagged Divisions

Construction

construction curriculum, Professor Farrow at the McWhorterSchool of Construction at Auburn University has experimented with flipping his classroom. As part ofthis program he has developed an online learning academy focused on construction topics. These videoswere produced to replace the introductory lecture in order to have more time in the classroom for activelearning and hands-on applied activities. (Farrow, 2013)Replacing text books with on-line lessons raises some concerns. Are these lessons peer reviewed.Textbooks are peer reviewed and go through rigorous editing and revisions. On-line lessons do not yethave a standard for quality or peer review. In the future as on-line lessons become more available a peerreview process or some other measure of

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bruce Kovanen, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Paul Prior; John R Gallagher, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Celia Mathews Elliott, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; John S Popovics P.E., University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; S. Lance Cooper, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign; Julie L Zilles, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Tagged Topics

Diversity, NSF Grantees Poster Session

disciplinary enculturation in university settings and across the lifespan. In addition to leading Writing across the Curriculum (WAC) activities at UIUC since the 1990s, Paul has participated in Writing Across Engineering and Science (WAES) since its inception.Dr. John R Gallagher, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign I am an assistant professor of English at The University of Illinois, Urbana-ChampaignMs. Celia Mathews Elliott, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Celia Mathews Elliott is a science writer and technical editor in the Department of Physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She has been teaching technical communications to upper-level undergraduate physics majors since 2000.Prof. John S

Conference Session

Sustainability

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Julia M. Williams, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Caroline Carvill, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Richard A. House, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Jessica Livingston, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Anneliese Watt, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Multidisciplinary Engineering

on how effectively they havecommunicated their ideas or not, particularly when an EWB-RHIT member has to ask forclarification. Furthermore, EWB-RHIT members frequently ask the technical communicationstudents how they would persuade the community of Gomoa Gyaman of their ideas to whichthere may be some resistance, reminding them that communication is an integral part ofengineering. As part of our presentation at ASEE 2014, we will share the assignments,evaluations, and other materials that have been produced through this approach. Approach 4--Grand Challenges After-School ProjectLike the Engineers Without Borders Project, the Grand Challenges After-School Project ensuresthat students see their communication work in a real world context. The

Conference Session

Cooperative and Experiential Education Division Technical Session 1 - Skill and Competency Development through the Co-op Experience

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Haaniyah Ali, York University; Jeffrey Harris, York University

Tagged Divisions

Cooperative and Experiential Education

“relevant employability skills… before graduation.” In this case, employabilityskills are skills employers look for in potential hires that can serve as a metric for evaluatingperformance [2]. Due to the broadness of the term “employability skills” there is no definitive list ofwhich employability skills students are to gain, or what skills are to be transferred. Thismakes skill development difficult to track. There is, however, an expectation for co-opstudents to perform according to a standard. Competency lists exist for engineering bodiesand curriculums (such as CEAB and ABET) that schools adhere to. This gives programdirectors a focal point to develop curriculums around and a list of skills can then emerge.Even with these lists and the

Conference Session

Teaching Strategies for Solid Modeling

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Seokyoung Ahn, University of Texas - Pan American; Robert A. Freeman, University of Texas, Pan American; Stephen W. Crown, University of Texas, Pan American; Gregory Allen Potter, The University of Texas - Pan American

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Design Graphics

usually measured in miles or kilometers. Would it not seem ridiculous to ask for that same distance in units of inches or centimeters? 2. Should you create a new part template? Do you have to?Multiple Perspectives:Ask students to create puzzle part shapes from snap cubes first. They can then create a sub-assembly of each puzzle piece using their snap cube part drawn earlier.Possible questions: Page 22.470.15 1. What type of tolerance fit is between each snap cube? The snap-cubes have an Interference Fit between the mating surfaces. This question is meant to reinforce the regular EG curriculum with a

Conference Session

Goal Specific First-Year Courses

Collection

2009 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James Lewis, University of Louisville; Jeffrey Hieb, University of Louisville; David Wheatley, University of Louisville

Tagged Divisions

First-Year Programs

, their critical thinking skills. This case study evaluationrubric will need to include such things as the clarity, depth, relevance, logicalness, preciseness,and significance of the answer as well as the importance of each part.5.2 Follow through assessmentCritical thinking cannot be developed in a single course or at a single point in a student’seducational career. Mature critical thinking takes time to develop, it must be practiced, and itmust be practiced in many different domains. Exposure of incoming engineering students tocritical thinking both explicitly through formal definitions and models, and implicitly byexample is the first step towards an integrated approach to strengthening the development of

Conference Session

FPD and DEEDs Joint Postcard Sessions

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Derek Breid, Saint Vincent College

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education, First-Year Programs

Paper ID #23233Work In Progress: Using Current Crowdfunding Projects as Case Studies toEnhance Students’ Understanding of the Design ProcessDr. Derek Breid, Saint Vincent College Derek Breid is an assistant professor of Engineering Science at Saint Vincent College. His interests in- clude integrating active learning techniques into classic engineering courses, and studying the mechanical behavior of soft materials. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018 Work In Progress: Using current crowdfunding projects as case studies to enhance students’ understanding of the

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED) Technical Session 1

Collection

2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nicholas Moses, University of Michigan; Shanna R. Daly, University of Michigan; Kathleen H. Sienko, University of Michigan

Tagged Divisions

Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED)

of Michigan Shanna Daly is an Associate Professor in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan. She has a B.E. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Dayton and a Ph.D. in Engineering Education from Purdue University.Dr. Kathleen H. Sienko, University of Michigan Kathleen H. Sienko is an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan (UM). She earned her Ph.D. in 2007 in Medical Engineering and Bioastronautics from the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Science and Technology, and holds an S.M. in Aeronautics & Astronau- tics from MIT and a B.S. in Materials Engineering from the University of Kentucky. She co-founded the UM Center for Socially Engaged

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Patrick A. Tebbe, Minnesota State University, Mankato

Tagged Topics

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Paper ID #12567Engaged in Thermodynamics – Bringing it to Industry and the ClassroomDr. Patrick A. Tebbe, Minnesota State University, Mankato Page 26.602.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Engaged in Thermodynamics – Bringing it to Industry and the Classroom AbstractThis paper will discuss an on-going NSF-CCLI grant that addresses improvements in studentpedagogy and educational materials for the engineering thermodynamics curriculum bycompleting development of the Engaged

Conference Session

ECE Design, Capstone, and Engr. Practice

Collection

2002 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Parten

Research in Project Laboratories," Proceedings of Engineering Education: Curriculum Innovation and Integration, Engineering Foundation Conference, Santa Barbara, CA, January 1992. Page 7.995.7 Proceedings of the 2002 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright Ó 2002, American Society for Engineering Education 9. M. E. Parten, "Design in the Electrical Engineering Laboratory," 1988 ASEE Gulf-Southwest Annual Meeting, San Antonio, TX, March 17-18, 1988Micheal E. PartenMicheal E. Parten is a Professor of Electrical Engineering

Conference Session

Gender and Minority Issues in K-12 Engineering

Collection

2010 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeanne Christman, Rochester Institute of Technology; Elizabeth Dell, Rochester Institute of Technology; Robert Garrick, Rochester Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

K-12 & Pre-College Engineering

AC 2010-780: INCREASING GIRLS' INTEREST IN ENGINEERING BY MAKINGIT FUNJeanne Christman, Rochester Institute of Technology Jeanne Christman is an Assistant Professor of Computer Engineering Technology at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Her academic area of distinction is in Embedded Systems Design. Jeanne received a B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Clarkson University and an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Dallas. She worked in industry as an Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) designer prior to joining the faculty at RIT.Elizabeth Dell, Rochester Institute of Technology Elizabeth Dell is an Assistant Professor of Manufacturing &

Conference Session

Concurrent Paper Tracks - Session I

Collection

2015 ASEE International Forum

Authors

Yiming Rong, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Tagged Topics

International Forum

collaborative universitiesand project sponsoring companies, as well as many colleagues and friends involved in thecanter operation.References[1] Daniel Hirleman, Eckhard A. Groll, and Dianne L. Atkinson, “The Three Axes of Engineering Education”, International Conference on Engineering Education (ICEE), Coimbra, Portugal, September 3 – 7, 2007.[2] F. Looft and Y. Rong, “The Capstone Project: An Integrated Experience”, Chapter 8 in Shaping Our World, Engineering Education for the 21st Century, Editors, G. Tryggvason and D. Apelian, ISBN 978-0-470-92974-2, Wiley and Sons, 2011[3] E. Sosnovsky, B. Windsor, Y. Rong, “Comprehensive Design Process of Planar Mechanisms for Small and Medium-sized Companies

Conference Session

Special Topics: Conscious Considerations

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Courtney Janaye Wright, University of Kentucky; Lucy Elizabeth Hargis, University of Kentucky; Ellen L. Usher, University of Kentucky; Joseph H. Hammer, University of Kentucky; Sarah A. Wilson, University of Kentucky; Melanie E. Miller, University of Kentucky

Tagged Divisions

Culture & Social Justice in Education, Equity

seeking help related to mental health.Interview questions were grounded in the Integrated Behavioral Model, which recognizes theimportance of the perceived barriers and facilitators associated with mental health related help-seeking. Researchers used Braun & Clarke’s thematic analysis to identify emergent themesrelated to engineering students’ mental health help-seeking beliefs. Six major themes wereidentified: 1) An unsupportive engineering training environment creates stress, 2) Difficult workand time constraints create stress, 3) Supportive input from others promotes help-seeking, 4) Iftime is limited, mental health is a lower priority, 5) Students operate on a suck it up mentalityunless they’ve reached a breaking point and 6) Help-seeking

Conference Session

Building Bridges with Community Colleges

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Gordy Skattum; Clifford Mirman

mustprovide educational programs, there is an overriding need to provide accessibility to studentsfrom all of the communities served. To provide students with this type of access, in which theycan chose the career direction, Rock Valley Community College (Rockford, Illinois) andNorthern Illinois University (NIU) have developed a unique series of programs within theTechnology realm. As part of this program, students can choose their desired degree path andstopping point; after 2-years or 4-years. In addition the students can determine the appropriatelevel of Technology that will suit their educational needs. As a result, students will be able toobtain the needed technical knowledge to obtain employment after two years at RVC or continuetheir education

Conference Session

Best Paper Presentations

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gwen Elizabeth Ellis; Cecilia Dianne Richards, Washington State University; Brad R. Thompson, Washington State University; Robert F. Richards, Washington State University

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

athermal fluids lab on flow through a venturi and flow measurement. There are two intended usersof the laboratory: students at satellite campuses will operate the lab remotely as part of theirlaboratory course and instructors will operate the lab from their classrooms to bringdemonstrations and active learning components to lecture courses. This paper provides an initialassessment of effectiveness of remote labs for two applications, 1) in class demonstration forlecture classes 2) remotely operated instrumentation lab experiments.2 ApproachThe development of the lab involved putting together hardware for the actual flow circuit, addingautomated controls for valves, installing a web based data acquisition system, and integrating aweb camera with

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Design

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen Peretti; Paula Berardinelli; Naomi Kleid; Deanna Dannels; Chris Anson; Lisa Bullard; Dave Kmiec

instruction and assessment of multidisciplinaryteams in the senior design curriculum. At NC State University, one specific challenge emerging in one such chemical engineering seniordesign course revolves around the instruction and assessment of multidisciplinary teaming skills in thecapstone design course. This effort is part of a larger NSF funded9 project related to the integration ofwriting, teaming, and speaking instruction into engineering curricula. This paper describes theinstructional strategies and assessment mechanisms that were used in that course to support studentslearning multidisciplinary teaming competence.Multidisciplinary teaming in CHE 451 The initial focus of the NSF grant was a senior capstone chemical engineering

Conference Session

Product Innovation And Entrepreneurship

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Peter Johnson, Valparaiso University; Kathleen Sevener, Valparaiso University; Doug Tougaw, Valparaiso University; Jeffrey Will, Valparaiso University

thepeople being served or to the teams themselves. What the instructors of the course realized is thata project of this nature requires more relaxed guidelines as far as the complexity of the project isconcerned. This does not mean that the course objectives are sacrificed, however. For example,many more complex prototypes that are developed tend to either just survive the testing phase ordevelop failures during the testing of the system requirements. Relaxing the complexity inallowing the design to largely become an integration of systems – combining elements that werepurchased along with the design of some other components, the engineering design that wasinvolved was not relaxed. What it did was to allow the team to spend less effort in